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2015, National Leader
Wade Henderson on Religious Exemptions
During OutGiving 2015, Wade Henderson, CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, shared his thoughts on the need for a federal campaign to bring LGBT equality into the broader civil rights dialogue.
2013, Donor
Alix Ritchie: Donor Stories
OutGiver Alix Ritchie (Media Strategy Consultant and Co-Founder, MALLRD Foundation) shares her reasons for giving, highlighting the personal giving strategies behind her philanthropy, the passion that fuels her generosity, and the lessons she's learned to sustain the power her investment has to make real change ...
2011, Entertainer
Sarah Jones: Sarah Jones as Nereida
Sarah Jones is a hilariously poignant Tony Award winning playwright and performer. This year she brought six guests to share their insights on what it means to be LGBT in today’s world. One guest is Nereida, a young fast-talking Dominican immigrant living in the Washington ...
2011, National Leader
Rea Carey: We Just Want to be Visible
Rea Carey is Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Rea shares stories of LGBT immigrants who face unique challenges with a broken immigration system and the federal government's failure to recognize lesbian and gay relationships.
2013, Business Leader, Donor, National Leader
A Celebration of Allies
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni moderates a conversation with three remarkable families: Maryann Simpson and her daughter Aija Simpson Paul Singer and his son Andrew Morris-Singer Brian Burke and his son Patrick Burke
2013, Business Leader, National Leader
Breaking Through in Sports, Religion, Business & Families
The Rev. Delman Coates, Patrick Burke, Todd Sears, and Ingrid Duran -- pioneering allies and LGBT leaders -- join in a conversation facilitated by Catherine Pino about recent campaigns and other efforts that are expanding the national dialogue within sports, religion, business, and families.
2015, National Leader, State Leader
Katie Blair & Tyler Deaton on Indiana's RFRA
Following the passage of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the entire country woke up to a conversation about LGBT equality and religious freedom. Katie Blair & Tyler Deaton joined us at OutGiving to walk us through a timeline of what happened in Indiana -- ...
2013, Donor
Brian Dorsey: Donor Stories
OutGiver Brian Dorsey (President, The Sellers Dorsey Foundation) shares his reasons for giving, highlighting the personal giving strategies behind his philanthropy, the passion that fuels his generosity, and the lessons he's learned to sustain the power his investment has to make real change in a ...
2011, Media, National Leader
Pam Spaulding: Life of a Blogger
Pam has been blogging about LGBT issues for more than seven years. Here she shares an example of a single blogger influencing the outcome of a political race and how blogswarming ended an anti-trans campaign – both using nothing more than social media and blog ...
2013, Donor, National Leader
Kate Kendall, Maya Harris, and Tim Sweeney: America's Challenges are LGBT Challenges, Part 1
Assessing LGBT issues through a prism of defining national challenges helps to illuminate the unique ways in which "American" issues impact LGBT people and vice versa. This sobering look at the challenges faced by the most vulnerable among us also showcases donors who have been ...
2011, Business Leader, National Leader
Jarrett Barrios and Thomas Gensemer: The Scoop on It Gets Better
Thomas works on the “new media” side of communications while Jarrett operates on the “traditional media” side. But when the two were brought together on the “It Gets Better” campaign, it was like a whole new world opened up for both of them. Learn how ...
2015, National Leader
NAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond on Religious Exemptions
Across the country, opponents of LGBT equality are attempting to advance religious exemptions that would allow businesses and individuals to use religion as an excuse to discriminate. Here's Julian Bond on the subject.
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